The color of infinity inside an empty glass

Capitol Steps was good. :) There was a fair amount of repeat songs, a few songs with a few different words ("Beginner Takes It All" included lines, this time, about 'that Plumber Joe' and 'My Friends' *amuse*) and some never before seen songs.

Some songs.. they really really really REALLY need to take out of circulation. The Supremes' Song, "Stayin' Alive" just HAS to go. It was cute a few years back. Now it's overused (I've seen it four times in 3 years) and anyways no longer the point with Obama president-elect.

But they had some GREAT new Material (Seeing Putin, Medvedev and.. some unknown third person dancing around, clapping their hands, etc.) to "Midnight Raid to Georgia" had me nearly rolling along the floor laughing. It was AWESOME! :D

Though Tina Fey does a much better Palin then the Capitol Steps does. (The Capitol Steps performer kept dropping her accent. Though.. how she was going to deal with foreign powers like Russia... also left me rolling along the floor (she whipped her hair out of the bun, and started running her hands down her body. Then... THEN.. to show that Biden knows how to play the game, he, too, started running his hands around his body. Oh my god, it was funny.)

So.. all in all, a great show! :D

Studying.. is going along. I did a lot on Saturday, a little on Sunday and will do a little more Wednesday. It's tough.. and I'm really struggling with the questions, but.. I'm also probably learning too.
I had a nightmare Saturday, though, that the test was five weeks ago and woke up freaking out (feeling kinda freaked out most of yesterday, really)

Speaking of the Presidential Candidates, I nearly died.. there was a Producer Event in Norway last week, and they released a couple of official videos. The first was a fight between Biden and Palin at the steps of city hall (Palin picked a fight with Biden, they fought for a while and Palin kicked Biden's butt.) and then.. a dance-off, I guess, between Palin and a less-than-adequate McCain. Which was.. mind breaking. :)

There are other videos from the Norway Producer Event, quite a lot, really. So.. some real details about what the game entails are filtering through.. and I'm REALLY impressed.

I have some less-than-lovely things to say about EA and some of the directions they've taken recently. Alot of the stuff they've put out recently has not lived up to expectations. Spore.. was.. OK. Just OK. It didn't deliver up to the hype it's still getting. Simcity Societies.. wasn't good at all. MySims.. crap. Simcity Creator.. crap. Not to mention that I'm not thrilled with the DRM software, SecuRom, they keep sticking on the games.
But Sims 3... clearly they've been LISTENING to their players. I have no doubts whatsoever that, so long as the game runs, that this game is going to deliver and will be better than Sims 2. No doubt.

In fact, i was obsessing to K about Sims 3, and kinda sad because I realize once I GET Sims 3.. Sims 2 will probably go away. K may play it, here and there, but.. it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend. Sims 2 and I have been buddies for five years so it'll be sad to see some of it go. K points out it might be worth it to 'say goodbye' properly. :) So... I've spent some time and will probably continue to spend some time, when I can, playing Sims and living their lives out for them. :)

Which is good for my SimGod blog. It gives me something to talk about. :D

So.. *checks time* Time to get to work. See y'all at lunch. :)

OK, I'm up (stupid Gershwin), so I may as well take a moment to talk about the TMBG Concert:)

First off, the concert was short. Like, not even an hour and a half, even with Encore.

The playlist is
La Fortuna Intro
Clap Your Hands
Bed Bed Bed
Cyclops Rock
Fingertips
John Lee Supertaster
Dr. Worm
Famous Polka
Famous Polka - FASTER!
Drink!
Dead
On The Drag
In The Middle In The Middle In The Middle
Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Minimum Wage
Boss Of Me
Birdhouse In Your Soul
Why Does The Sun Shine?
Thank Yous (also, very short)
No!

Encore
Particle Man
Battle For The Planet of the Apes
New York City

Looking back at November's Concert from last year, it was a LITTLE DISAPPOINTING.
For example, New York City.. In November, they really played it hard and well. I remember dancing going "THIS IS COOL!", yesterday I was like 'Too slow! Speed it up!'
Still didn't do No Ana Ng, No Statue, No Guitar, Not even Man It's So Loud In Here or Sleepwalkers or "Adult" Robot Parade this time *sniffsniff*
Not even Spin the Dial!! *sniffsniff*

I'm not saying the show wasn't good. It was. I still can't talk from all the screaming I did. :) It just didn't compare to the one last November which was longer and cooler and stuff.
When they started playing the Famous Polka... again, I was laughing pretty hard. it just amused me. They should have sung the words, though!
Was both confused and amused when someone nearer to the front of the concert (I ended up staying in back with dawnstar, kolys, blackfelicula and mechanchaos) took his shoe up and held it above his head like a prize.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes was nifty and sounded... pretty much like in Severe Tire Damage.
When the Band of Dans played, we had to raise out left hand, do the concert punching air in front of us thing and scream "People". When the Johns played, we had to do this with our right hand and scream "Ape". When no one played, we had to do this with both hands and scream "Robot".. it was.. amusing :)
Apparently I was amusing too. dawnstar at one point in the night commented that she wasn't sure whether the better show was watching the band or me watching the band. heh.

Another note, we missed one of the opening bands (Woven), but the one we did catch, McCarthyizm.. well, it was pretty darned cool too :) Unfortunately and for reasons I don't really get when I went up to the place to get a CD, they said McCarthyizm had never put any out.
So I was forced to get the CD version of the Working Undercover For The Man single and the newest version of Direct From Brooklyn (with the Gigantic scenes in it :) ) which I will probably watch before kholnuu calls. Poor me ;)

I'll tell you in person, but happy birthday janinedog! :)

OK, I'll post this, feed the evil cattens of hellitude and try to go back to bed before people arrive again.